The real question in analyzing the May jobs numbers released Friday is whether there are enough synonyms for “good” in an online thesaurus to describe them adequately.

So, for example, “splendid” and “excellent” fit the bill. Those are the kinds of terms that are appropriate when the United States economy adds 223,000 jobs in a month, despite being nine years into an expansion, and when the unemployment rate falls to 3.8 percent, a new 18-year low.

“Salubrious,” “salutary” and “healthy” work as words to describe the 0.3 percent rise in average hourly earnings, which are up 2.7 percent over the last year — a nice improvement but also not the kind of sharp increase that might lead the Federal Reserve to rethink its cautious path of interest rate increases.

You don't have to. If you use the shit numbers as a baseline, it still shows things are far better now than under Obama.

Yeah, I believe they're better. I just have a problem with not using the "real" numbers, especially considering Trump railed against the "fake" numbers not all that long ago. I understand this is a NYT article, but am remembering Trump touting the "fake" numbers since becoming POTUS and suspect he will do so again in response to this article or similar.